Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 212, Decatur, Adams County, 5 September 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publi»h«d Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J H. Heller —Pres, and Gen. Mgr. E. W. Kumpe- Vice-Pres. & Adv. Mgr. A. 11. Holthouse— Hec’y. ii Bus. Mgr. Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies — - 2 cents One week, by carrier 10 cents Ona Year, by carrier 35.00 One month, by mail 35 cent 8 Three Months, by mail 31.00 Six months, by mail - >1.75( One Year, by mail 33.00 ( One Year, at office 33.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates Made Known on Application Foreign Representative Carpenter & Company, 123 Michigan Avenuue, Chicago. Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City. N. Y. Life Bldg., Kansas City Mo. I GET AT THE TRUTH:— ~ l'i a report made some weeks ago by the Indiana accounting board find-i ings alleging serious irregularities in--the state highway department were' presented. The highway department later employed private accountants to' examine its records and now offers at:! a result something it esteems a clean ' bill of health. The accounting board 1 is asked to withdraw its report and. by implication, to apologize. Singu-'i larly enough, the state accountants I persist in st '.'uting by what they say tley ic.und and v. hat certainly they 1 reported. Governor Branch says he_jvants to , know nothing but the truth. There i docs not appear much likelihood of < his remaining in office long enough to • I f-.nd out about that, if doubt declouds his mind. The accounting board doubtless is willing to be shown but , it also doubtless will insist on being , shown. There remain but four months i of Governor Branch's inherited tenure, a period scarcely ample to the need if a thorough investigation is t.> he made d th Indiana highway! department :b. r the state auspices,’ the only ..r.pic -t> should be considered. A demand was made recently by a 1 publication in Indianapolis for toe I legislative investigation of the state accounting department. That demand wa s made in defense of the highway department. It was considered by the critic publication that the legislature could not do a lot worse than summarily and completely- spurlos versenkt. That is needless. What the next legislature should do is to minutely investigate the Indiana highway department. The accounting board is becoming venerable and has a reputation—Fort Wayae Journal-Gazette. John A. M. Adair, democratic cmdidate for congress in this distri t, will speak at Pleasant Mills next Thursday evening and at Monroe next Friday evening. The following we k on Wednesday night he will speak at Geneva. He will cover the courty during the campaign and will bring the voters a message which should mean much. He is earnest and honest and capable. He knows how to talk and what he is talkirjg about. His record of ten years in congreis stands for itself. His promises far the future can be relied upon for he has always made goof. The regular speaking campaign in this county will start about the middle of the month and continue until Novoember 4th. Democratic headquarters will open here the morning of the 15th. John W. Davis, democratic candidate for president, will speak at Fort Wayne on the evening of Saturday, September 20th. Mr. Davis is ad-' mitted to be one of the most able men who has ever asked the suffrage of the American people. He is a great orator not only because of his command of language; but because h< says something. He analyzes public questions and he i s a democrat w'i believes in the government standin lor the people. If it is possible t hear him at Fort Wayne, yon shoul

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Face to Face •: With John G. Shedd executive head of MARSHALL FIELD CO.. CHICAGO (By Jo* Mitchell Chapple) When young John Shedd, aged ’ twelve, and a rosy cheeked farmer boy, looked across the counter of the .'country store, at Alsteud, N. H . und 11 ) told the farmer’s wife —"It is all I wool and a yard wide," she believed him. This was his first job and the early beginning of a notable business career. He understood » the crypticletters of the "cost marks” used in those days, from ten penny nails to (Number 70 spool of cotton and <od Liver Oil. In a dry goods store in Rutland he took a post graduate course, and developed an ambition to own a dry goods store in Vermont. I In 1872 he made his way to Chicago and secured employment with Field. Leiter & Co. Thirty years later he I succeeded Marshall Field as chair|tnan cf the Board of the greatest rej tail store of the midwest. John Shedd was more than a merchant. | The public, spirit inherited by his I New England ancestors led him to become interested in all the enter- ' prises at the time in Chicago. !nI forested in railroads and fn banks he has kept in close touch with the great business with which he has become a prominent factor. As he I began to acquire a fortune he also : began to study ways of doing something with it and presented the city of Chicago with an aquarium costing several million dollars. The John Shedd of today is a medium sized man. with iron grey hair, has a quick dcci.nve way of talking, and has the keen dark eyes of a merchant. He is an indefatigable worker. I "Work is about the one word that can tell more ho w to succeed than anything else, but it must be hard work with thoroughness good judgment and a definite objective. Shifting from one thing to another i: lost motion. To me, the great men in the ■world are those who will teach people .to think. Not what to think, but how to think.” “For a long time it seemed in my • work as though I were not getting ahead much. I was not feling what II felt others were receiving. I wa 5 [working hard and seeming to make [little headway, and yet it wa: the j very experience of this period that later became an invaluable assest in

I Editor's Note: Send ten names of your 1 Mitchell Chapple, The Attic, Waldorf i readers of this paper are to nci 'Io so tor this .<-dress wll be worths while. lie is a lit, rma. don’t forge,, that. ' It is well to remember that the predictions now being made politically are for the purpose ot establishing, confidence and nothing else. It is two months until election and there; are no doubt several million people in the country who haven’t fullv detided just how they will vote. How- ’ ere, the primary in Wisconsin this week in which LaFollette made a clean sweep with his candidates is c likely to make the republican prognosticators realize that their predictions f have been wishes rather than sound ( guesses. Ed. Jackson has fifty-one people ’ working in the a,uto theft department alone, each drawing a salary of from SBO to $250 per month and some of them two or three. Just what they do we don’t know, but we doubt if they jsave enough automobiles to pay the expenses of their department. And he wants to be governor. Uy the way, how’s the coal pile? A few mornings like this will make us think seriously of the six months of furnace firing and < oal heaving as ■ sure to come as Christmas. 'i ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ > ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ t ♦ ♦ t * From the Daily Democrat (!!•• ♦ ( ♦ 20 years ago this day ♦ ***** * * * * lc Sept. 5.—J. W. Gick, of Portland, io brakeman on G. R. and I. Killed in lg yards here. to Charles Meibers begins duties as |(I baggageman at Hotel Murray. I Good supply of gas is predicted for

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i | u. -«• ' -'X \ Ifu. .*** JOHN SHEDD says: "Work is about the one word that can tell more than anything elre how to succeed, but it must be hard work with thoroughness, good judgment I and a definite objective.’’ my life. I was ready for an emergency. Much depends upon associ ation. Sometimes it is called ’Luck’, but how n.any epportunties : I’p from the hands of men w-ho did not recognize them. 1 In his business career. John Shedd < has kept in mind always in every transaction the confidence of the 1 customer. The good will Marshall Field & Co. is'l worth more than ail its material 11 assets. Good will is built up by ! little acts and deeds that do not ! cost much but mean so much, and it 1 is not necessary to have policies if * you have principles. “I remember when I first asked Mr. j 1 Field for a job. He said —“What can i* you do?” My training in a general 1 store gave me the confidence of youth and I promptly replied. ”1 can sell | goods of any kind or character that! 1 this store has for sale.” The job was ,‘ a real salary of 310,00 a week. £ While testifying in th- Dingley Tariff Bill in Washington, the late ‘ Marshall Field paid John Shedd, hi: associate, this tribute — ”1 gin holding in my hand a letter ‘ from the man I believe to be the best merchant in the United States." “It is not how you start but how well you finish. A too favorable start is sometimes a handicap, for one hot ( box can stop a train and all the train; behind.” As head of the lacgaf.d eirfbroidery d department John Shedd was the first ! < merchant in Chicago to introduce the jSaturday half holiday and to provide \i reading rooms, music rooms and rest j; rooms to make the store as homelike ; Tor his own people as well as attrac- ; five to hi; customers.

favorite famous folk now living to Joo < Astoria Hotel, New York City. The ; irninate for this Hall of Fame. iiominfr winter. S. pl„;:.lKr term of Adams elr-ult court convenes. Many Decatur peep’e celebrate , Dav at Huntington. •cvoral cr'gan’zations from here attending in 'a body. I Decatur defeats Marion Owls 8 f> 5. | St. Mary's river is covered with oil because of leak in Standard Oil pipa lines. I Public Schools open with Prof. H. A. Hartman in charge. Mr. and Mr'. D. H. Hunsicker of 1 Cincinnati visit here. Miss Mayme Maywocd of Cincir- - nati returns home after visit with , ; Miss Celia Smith. SBig Features Os 1 RADIO j Programs Today X FRIDAY’S RADIO PROGRAM 1 (Copyright 1924 by United Press) | KEZ. Oakland, (509 m) 8 to 10:30 p. m. POST —Concert program, vocal C and instrumental solos, orchestra 3 and organ numbers. , WDAR. Philadelphia, (395 m 7:30 f ; p. m. EST—Emmett Welch min trek; 5 and Benson’s Chicago orchestra. j WBZ. Springfield. (537 m 10 p. m. ; EST —WBZ Trio and soloists; Zoo i Elliott, composer, pianist. KDKA, Pittsburgh, (326 m 8 p. m. ► EST—Unique concert program with ) Musical saw, jewsharp experts, etc. ► WDAF, Kansas City, ( ill m) 11:45 *'p. in. CST—The Merry Old Chief and the Nighthawk Frolickt r •••. ;—o Winchester —Crime has reached such proportions here that Sheri fl I Lundy Fisher has had a telephone in stalled in his home and has parchas . ed a large pistol. 1 >

- J- M-'"' Says It Pays To Use Fertilizer On Wheat (L M. Bus: he. County Agent) Commercial fertilizers have shown tlwir value this yea. to a remarkable degree. In spite of the fact that their benefits seen in summers of heavy rainfall, as was experienced this year, many farmer* are ahead by us lig fertilizer each year. Test strips in wheal oats und sugar beets were to be found in practically every neighborhood which showed fertilized portions to be more even, thrifty and in tile case of grains, considerably earl'cr maturing. Numerous photos were taken by the writer which show in fertilized and unfert i.ized ciops differences in yield suf-' ficient to mean success or failure? Fgures relative to yields were gathered v.-liich show the cost of the fertilizers Io have been returned several times over by the increase in [yield. 1 In spite of the that larger yields are discouraged by some because of overproduction, it remains [that the farmer who raises most [bushes per acre is usually prosperous j , Practically all wheat raising costa [are equal whether the yield is 15 OIL’S bushels per acre. Hence, the larger the yield, the less cost per bushel, resulting in a greater ,d-if-t-'renc-e between cost of production and selling price and greater profit on the crop. Only high-analysis fertilizers should be used. The cheap fertilizer is often the most expensive. The | pounds of plant food in the bag, not the pounds of mixed fertilizer, measures its value. The cost of mixing, handling, shipping and other overhead costs is the same in a fertilizer containing 14 units of plant food as in one containing 28 units of plant food A little use of the pencil shows that the more units on the tag found on the fertilizer bag. the less cost per unit. Commercial fertilizers will not take the place of manure, that greatest of all fertilizers and should be used only as a supplement. Livestock farming, the basis of fertility, should never give way to commercial fertilizers. However, but few farms produce enough manure to make the use of commercial fertilizers unprofitable. For information on the kind of fertilizer to use on various soils and in different rotations, obtain Purdue bu.letin 92 at the county agent's office. o <. i Court House | » $

Suit For Divorce Irene Lyons filed a suit in the c:r J cult court yesterday afternoon, ask-

ing a divorce from William I>yona. The coup!? were married August 31, 1918 and separated August 31. 1924, a' which time, it is alleged the de fendant abandoned the plaintiff. Mrs. Lyons alleges that her husband often struck and beat her and called her vile and vulgar names; that he failed and refused to provide sufficient food and clothing for her; and that he was i guilty of adultery with other women in the city of Decatur. Two children j have been born to the couple and Mrs. I Lyons asks the court to award the | 'custody of the children to her. She I also'asks for alimony in the sum cf SSOO. An application for suit money and attorney fees was filed with the complaint. Attorney L. C. DeVoss represents the plaintiff. Marriage Licences I Oliver Everett, laborer, Pleasant i Mills, to Clara Vauris, Pleasant Mills. | Sent to Jail I I Harvey Largent was sent to jail noon, after he had been found guilty I of contempt of court. Largent had by Judge Sutton yesterday after- ' failed to comply with a recent order , of the court in regard to making payments for the support of his wife dur- ' ing the time her suit for divorce is I pending. The court ordered Largent ■ I confined in jail until the order is complied with or until further order, of the court. The divorce case was set for trial on September 6. 1 | Cases Dismissed I The cases of the state vs. Robert | H Fieckenste n for passing a fram.u . ; lent check; state vs. Frod Stucky,' for violation of the school law were' • dismissed, after the prosecuting at J toiney had filed a nolle pros. The leases of the state vs. Arch Charles--iten. Cleo Jackson and Ivan Smith 1 were ordered left off the docket. Cases Set for Tria! 5 ; The i, :e, cf the state vs. Amos D. I Buckmaster was set for trial on September ft. The case of the state vs Melvin Hirsehy and Albert Kirochofer d was set for trial on September 24. ff o i- The rew ornmental light posts, s- recently erected on Madison street, 'are baits given a coat of green paint.

' RURAL CHURCHES ! Con:ord Lutheran Church j “The Church In the Wildwood" > Services for Sunday, September 7. t Sunday school, 9:15 a.in., C. B--1 Kunkle, Supt. I Divine Worship, 7:30 p.m. t Song service. i Sermon—" Practical Righteousness. J L. HERBERT WYANDT. J PLEASANT MILLS METHODIST CHURCHES l s Sunday school, 9:30; Communion ! worship at Pleasant Mills. 10:45; Ep 1 worth League, 6:45; Preaching at I Salem. 7:30. Dr. W. W. Martin will preach at Salem Sunday evening and hold com munion services. The second quarterly conference will be held after 1 preaching Sunday evening at Salem. Everybody out to hear Dr. Martin. F. A. SHIPLEY, pastor, i o — Winona Lake—Pollltics and music I mixed at the Labor Day celebration here. Misciia Elman, Russian violinist and Ed. Jackson, candidate for governor, will speak. LoganspoTt—Shooting of Arthur Sullivan. here, may result in an order forbidding policemen to carry guns Burlington—Not all the painted "chickens” are human. Raymond Barber, here, was bothered by thieves and is marking his fowls by red paint I Elwood —Frederick I). Seelley. cele I brated Labor Day here by going tc I work. He took the office of postmast • er here.

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I We got most of the boys ready for School —- because we gave most Value! A census of school seats today in all wards shows that John T. Myers ( o. received the majority of school suit business. , ere gunning now for the boys who are . studying Fall lessons in last Spring’s clothes. * , If your son s Spring Suit is good enough to wear to schol this September it’s ten chances to one it’s an I. B. Ades. ’ Th ft J Nf? 11l f? o School Waists School Shirts School Stockings I Jotub-T-Myecb Go « BerrixcLOTHes fob less J monsy-always-8 ♦ DECATUR - "'INDIANA

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